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Podcast: Conversations with Dr. Jennifer
Episode: Loss and Its Impact on Desire
Description: Choosing to love with your whole heart means accepting the risk of disappointment, loss, and grief.Â
These difficult realities come in many forms throughout a lifetime—unmet expectations, unfulfilled hopes and dreams, shifts in belief, broken promises, illness, and ultimately, death.Â
Facing acute loss is a harrowing and sobering experience, in part because it wakes us up to just how little control we have over our circumstances. But being compassionate towards ourselves in the process and finding the courage to keep moving forward, even when the path is riddled with uncertainty and vulnerability, is a beau...